Technical Architects

Technical Architect

Duration: 12 months

Location: Croydon / Hyrbrid- 1 day on-site PW

Due to the urgency and sensitivity of the work, active SC Clearance is mandatory.

As a Technical Architect, you will:

• Design and own end-to-end technical solutions across applications, platforms, and infrastructure

• Define application architecture patterns, integration approaches, and data flows

• Lead solution design across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)

• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical architectures

• Design solutions addressing non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, security, and resilience

• Architect high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions

• Support hybrid and multi-cloud architectural designs

• Collaborate with engineering, delivery, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure architectural alignment

• Provide technical governance and assurance across delivery phases

• Proven experience working as a Technical Architect on complex programmes

• Strong expertise in end-to-end solution design across applications and infrastructure

• Solid understanding of application architecture patterns, integrations, and data flows

• Experience designing solutions in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)

• Good knowledge of networking, compute, storage, and platform services

• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures

• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, security, resilience)

• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity design

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and modern delivery models

• Active SC Clearance

• Hands-on experience with container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience designing cloud-native solutions or modernising legacy systems

• Exposure to regulated, enterprise, or large-scale environments

• Architecture or cloud certifications (e.g. TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect)

• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools

• Background supporting or leading DevOps or SRE-aligned teams

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!